The highly disputed “Stuttgart 21” railway construction site is seen on my photo from October 3rd, 2010. The German national railway company, “Deutsche Bahn” has begun to proceed their prestige project after a two and half month halt in April. The “Suttgart 21” is a project planned to replace the current terminal main station of Stuttgart with an underground station which is supposed to be more effective. Facing the enormous financial and environmental costs, as more than a hundred of old trees in a nearby park have to be cut according to the project plans, it has many opponents. The …

Today, I was in the City Hall of Hanover photographing the Lord Mayor of the City, Stephan Weil. The 52-year-old man has been the Lord Mayor of the City since November 2006. He is also the head of the supervisory board of “Deutsche Messe AG” which is the organizer of many important trade fairs such as Cebit, Hannover Messe and Interschutz.

I was in the North German Hohwacht for a weekend session from April 15th on. Despite the terrific view, unfortunately I hadn’t much time to photograph. But at one point during the dusk when I was walking past the shore, two swans rose my attention as behind them the horizon was vanishing in the fog. Voilà!

Half year ago I finished a long-term photojournalistic project about Mohammad and his son Abdullah in the German Collective Accomodation Facility (CAF) of Meinersen showing the degrading situation of a refugee family in Germany, which you can see as “German Reality: Asylum” as a part of my portfolio. Mohammad and Abdullah could now leave the CAF due to pressure from different commited groups and are living in an apartment in the same administrative district. Last Saturday, March 12th, I visited the CAF again with a friend and met Anup Rai, a Bhutanese refugee who has been recently sent to the CAF in Meinersen. He …

### The clashes in the Arab world continue, foremost in Egypt. There are a lots of journalists there now, under risk of their lives. The ABC has been publishing a list of journalists and photographers attacked on their site: –> http://abcworldnews.tumblr.com/post/3089328425/weve-compiled-a-list-of-all-the-journalists-who ### The best photographic work I’ve yet seen on Egypt clashes was done by the reknowned NOOR Photographer Yuri Kozyrev for the TIME Magazine: –> http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2046351,00.html ### Photojournalism is in transformation, the iApps Market is growing and visual storytelling is to become an essential part of visual storytelling which is not to underestimate. I share the link of a …

Unicef Photo of the year went to Ed Kashi for his reportage on children suffering from the legacy of  “Agent Orange” in Vietnam. Majid Saeedi, Afghanistan based Iranian photographer won the second price for his astonishing black & white reportage on children and the war aftermath in Afghanistan. You can see the winning images and the honourable mentions at: –> http://www.unicef.de/aktionen/foto-des-jahres-2010/ ### All of you under the age of 31 my apply for the Canon ProfiFoto Award until January 10th, 2011, 23.59 CEP. More Information: –> http://www.profifoto.de/canon-profifoto-foerderpreis/ ### And all of you under the age of 26 may apply for …

This is the new design of my website, containing my photographic portfolio. The website will hopefully be launched before Christmas 2010. This time the blog is integrated within the site. Thus I’m going to blog current issues concerning my photography and interesting stuff and news on photojournalism here in a weekly period. So, come again! I’d like to thank Felix Seuffert for his very helpful suggestion on designing this website.

should land into the blog part!